| Descartes distrusted the senses and the imagination, but the self as res cogitans stands squarely at the centre of his philosophy. |
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| There is nothing natural, and human biosocial defaults are always to be distrusted. |
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| Like turncoats throughout history, they were in danger of ending up distrusted by both sides. |
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| Washington's motives are widely distrusted and its various foreign policy postures are viewed suspiciously, even by long-standing allies. |
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| Western civilization in particular is distrusted as the modern incarnation of evil. |
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| Because they're distrusted by wives and lusted after by husbands, single moms are usually pariahs. |
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| There is so much of it, it is so contradictory, so obviously motivated by economic interests, so commodified, so much to be distrusted. |
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| The radical leaders distrusted the private sector altogether because of its close ties to the West. |
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| It merely added to the numbers of old-style territorial marcher lords there whom Tudor officials increasingly distrusted as overmighty subjects. |
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| However, his relentless authoritarianism as Home secretary has led him to be distrusted by many in the party. |
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| Instead of his artistic ambitions being welcomed, his plans and his vision were distrusted, or simply misunderstood. |
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| They suspected his culture, distrusted his politics and opposed his economics. |
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| Stoppages and disputes had been a problem, and many workers distrusted their managers. |
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| John Updike once wrote that he distrusted theories that explained men's behaviour in terms of them still being little boys. |
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| Our country is one of the most distrusted, unliked, unreliable and discredited of all nations on earth. |
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| My mother distrusted the parenting abilities of all my friends' parents to the point where it was embarrassing. |
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| His tall and gaunt framed, combined with his dark eyes and black hair, made him distrusted. |
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| He is distrusted by colleagues because he is blatantly ambitious, but no leadership candidate could be guiltless of that trait. |
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| Hasty generalizations and superficial analyses should, therefore, be distrusted. |
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| The concept of diffusionism, however, and the idea of a historical archetype discernible from distinct and different contemporary practices are increasingly distrusted. |
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| The news brigade were mostly old newspaper men, few women got a guernsey then, who distrusted radio techniques and thought the tape recorder was an instrument of the devil. |
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| An economist of Andean Indian origins, he has the sympathy of many poorer Peruvians, but his impulsiveness is distrusted by the rich. |
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| The left distrusted that distinction and the right misappropriated it, while philosophers continue to pick it over. |
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| Impetuous at times, he is deeply distrusted by a chunk of the Socialist left wing, particularly after his hard line over evicting illegal Roma. |
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| Half a century later, the real revolution had yet to arrive. Many hard-right exiles in Miami still distrusted and disliked him. |
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| Interviewers who are too young may be distrusted to a greater extent, causing increased unwillingness of respondents to answer questions. |
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| Frimeault, a Jesuit priest, whose presence disturbed Anderson who clearly distrusted him. |
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| Even though they expected the state to look after many of their needs, they distrusted it because of its oppressive character. |
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| Regrettably, many political parties and politicians as a whole are increasingly criticised and distrusted. |
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| The then liberators still have a large following among the people, although they still feel distrusted by the outside world. |
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| Actually, mainstream cosmetic products are really distrusted by many consumers. |
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| Jesus remains fascinating, but the Church's call to discipleship is distrusted. |
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| The pious, however, who were waiting for the reign of God, distrusted this way of making something political out of the rebel movement. |
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| The confidence and authority with which even the young man tackled his subject is now distrusted in a world extravagantly concerned with cultural relativity. |
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| Especially in the 1840s, the Piedmontese left, for its part, distrusted and despised Cavour whom they viewed as an arrogant and abrasive aristocratic conservative. |
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| If News Corp. really distrusted a former staffer, it might stagger her severance payments, says Estreicher. |
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| Kelly distrusted them and suspected them of deliberate deception. |
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| The party militias are widely distrusted because of their partisan nature. |
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| He always distrusted the military and had it intensively spied on. |
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| In 1803, the war resumed but public opinion distrusted Addington to lead the nation in war, and instead favoured Pitt. |
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| His father distrusted or was jealous of George's popularity, which contributed to the development of a poor relationship between them. |
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| George I distrusted the Tories, whom he believed opposed his right to succeed to the Throne. |
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| Truman, who distrusted Stalin and turned for advice to an elite group of foreign policy intellectuals. |
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| Voltaire distrusted democracy, which he saw as propagating the idiocy of the masses. |
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| Both Whigs and Tories distrusted the creation of a large standing army not under civilian control. |
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| However, he also distrusted the calculated gestures of Ferdinand and referred to him as a model of the art of political deceit. |
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| Philip II distrusted the nobility and discouraged any independent initiative among them. |
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| Equity courts were widely distrusted in the northeastern US following the American Revolution. |
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| Charismatics distrusted Falwell, fundamentalists disliked Robertson, and mainstream evangelicals and Southern Baptists were skeptical of both. |
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| While a large number of police have recently been deployed to Darfur region, they are distrusted by many of the local population, and therefore do not feel their security has been enhanced. |
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| He was a snobby Princeton senior who distrusted his own snobbery. |
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| Davis, then as now the Raiders' major-domo, distrusted Ewbank, too. |
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| While a large number of police have recently deployed to the Darfur region, they are distrusted by many of the local population, who therefore do not feel that their security has been enhanced. |
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| However, this intelligence may not be recognised as being useful to other agencies, there may not be secure channels through which the intelligence can be passed on, or these other agencies may be distrusted. |
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| However, they distrusted each other, and ultimately both were murdered by the Praetorian Guard, making Gordian III sole surviving Emperor. |
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| Left-wing Democrats, alarmed by China's human-rights abuses, find themselves in league with right-wing Republicans who see China as a new Soviet Union, to be distrusted and contained. |
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| Violence against women was a daily occurrence in Darfur and, according to the delegation itself, the victims distrusted the Sudanese police force and were afraid to report assaults. |
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| By contrast, JFK's defenders insist he was, in fact, a sceptic about the use of ground troops in Vietnam, distrusted gung-ho voices in the military, and would have found a way to wrench America out of that quagmire. |
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| His rival Gladstone, a Liberal distrusted by the Queen, served more terms and oversaw much of the overall legislative development of the era. |
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| Isn't a weakened, controlled, distrusted net in governments' interests? |
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| Anyone who has had an education is distrusted. |
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| Although committed to Republicanism, the Directory distrusted democracy. |
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| Although Harold Godwinson had married Edwin and Morcar's sister Ealdgyth, the two earls may have distrusted Harold and feared that the king would replace Morcar with Tostig. |
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| Most of the common soldiers found it difficult to fight for a liege whom they distrusted, and some lords believed that their situation might improve if Richard was dethroned. |
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